Questions tagged [post-ban]
A post ban means that a user is blocked from asking new questions, or posting new answers.
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Post Ban 6 Months problem [duplicate]
My last question is more than a year ago. Why am I still banned?
Does the ban last forever?
If you're unable to improve your existing questions, you'll get the
chance to ask a new one 6 months after ...
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question-banned accounts are said to have one question free every 6 month, seems mine is not? [duplicate]
I got question banned some time ago. In a recent discussion about it I was told I still have one question free every 6 months. I tried, but it doesn't work. "we do not accept ...". Any hints?...
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This question pushed me over the question ban threshold. How should I improve it?
The following question, after receiving -2 votes, pushed over the question-ban threshold:
What is the best way to resize one Excel table based on another?
I have a workbook with a number of sheets ...
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Emphasize ban only applies to this site, not entire network
We see
You can’t post new questions right now
Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from your account because most of your questions need improvement or are out of scope for this site. See the ...
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Can't get rid of questions restriction
I updated all of my questions, and they all follow the guidelines.
I also tried my best to update the deleted questions I have. Obviously I can't provide code or context on a 4 year old question. And ...
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How can I improve my questions if the majority of them are almost 10 years old?
To give some context, I have been given a question ban, and I've been told to edit my questions. The issue however is that the majority of my questions are over 8 years old. I would've written these ...
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Send users in a question ban to the Staging Ground when asking a question
This is something that has been raised a few times, both on announcement posts and in the private Team; however, I am posting a formal request to make it so that users that are in a question ban are ...
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How can I get unbaned from an answer ban? [duplicate]
I have only five questions and get more downvotes than I get the downvotes. That let I ban. I have asked on Meta Stack Exchange, but it does not have any answer.
I tried to edit the posts, but it ...
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Why, exactly, is opting to delete your account, then opting to later return to the site, not recommended if you are question banned?
If you are question banned, rate limited to 1 question per 6 months, and then you delete and recreate your account, you will be limited 1 question per week. This is by design because otherwise they ...
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Implement a discussion ban system similar to the question ban
While people that are question banned can't post on discussions, nothing is happening to those who abuse discussions and post all their low quality questions there. Because these people never post ...
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How can I remove an answer ban, if I agree with why one was deleted? [duplicate]
I recently found I have an answer ban, after finding a couple of my posts were deleted.
The documentation recommends that users in my situation edit their posts to be correct, so that this ban be ...
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Why can't moderators lift automated bans?
I have seen from various comments and in the rules of Stack Overflow that moderators cannot remove question or answer bans, no matter what.
How does the deciding who/for how long to ban and unbanning ...
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I need assistance understanding the problem with my question
I got a question ban on Stack Overflow.
It is somewhat reasonable: it actually took me a long time to grasp how the community tends to respond to questions, and I had a few "please help me out ...
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Are these questions really bad enough to get ban on Stack Overflow?
First of all, I already read What can I do when getting “We are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account”?. Please don't forward me there again.
Please help me with these negative score ...
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I would like to be able to ask questions again. What more can I do to improve my existing questions? [duplicate]
As per this page, when asking questions is disabled for your account, you are supposed to go edit and improve your existing questions until the nebulous "system" (an algorithm I assume?) ...
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